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Luz Elena Coloma, General Manager, Quito Turismo
Quito is much more than just Ecuador's capital. The city has one of the largest and best-preserved historic centers in the Americas. Indeed, it led Quito to be named one of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1978. Quito's 130 historic buildings include ornate and art-filled 16th and 17th century basilicas, churches and palaces, connected by winding cobblestone streets leading to broad open plazas.
Located in the Andes at 9,350 feet above sea level, Quito is within close range of spectacular natural attractions highlighted by Cotopaxi National Park. The city's busy marketplaces and charming bohemian districts offer opportunities to experience cuisine and culture. Quito recently opened an international airport and a new convention center is under construction at the old airport site, along with several new hotels.
The job of coordinating Quito's international tourism promotion falls to Luz Elena Coloma, general manager of Quito Turismo, a division of Ecuador's tourism ministry. A former city council member with an intimate knowledge of Quito and its people, Coloma has focused on publicizing the city's attractions and helping Quito shed its past identity as a pit stop for travelers headed to the Galapagos Islands. We spoke with Coloma at the recent Latin America TravelMart.
How have travelers traditionally regarded travel to Quito? Quito has been an afterthought for most tour operators. I understand that because 15 years ago in the tourist center it was difficult to have a three-day visit there. You didn't have too many attractions, you had a lot of vendors in the street and you had a lot of insecurity. It was not visitor-friendly. Still you had all of these monumental treasures. So what the tourism operators did was bring the tourists in early in the morning at around 8 a.m. for a three-hour visit to see the Church of La Compania and then off they went to Galapagos.
What has your office and the government done to change those perceptions? Of course, Galapagos is the jewel of the crown of tourism here, but we have communicated that if you do not visit the Galapagos, you can still have a wonderful visit. We have grown. We now have better services, a new airport and we are building a new convention facility. The historic center has more things to offer and we have the Tren Crucero historic train and more touristic products. The private tourism industry is involved as well. Services are better and we have more professional people to organize things.
In addition to the historic train, what are other attractions in and around Quito? You can do the haciendas and the historic train and visit Cotopaxi, all around Quito. You also have natural and adventure attractions that are very near Quito. If you want to stay in Quito, you can use it as a headquarters to spend a day or two touring the markets, a day at the haciendas, come back and then do a day of bird watching. We are telling people to come to Ecuador through our gateway, and stay and enjoy it here for three days. What we do not want is for travelers to come to Quito for three hours and then go off to the Galapagos and forget about us.
What accommodations are available in Quito? We already have luxury hotels such as Casa Gangotena, but as a municipality we are putting in the market public-private strategic alliances to convert six historic public buildings into small hotels. We also have the bohemian part of the city where you have nightclubs and young people. There also are small three-star hotels there. There will be a new Holiday Inn hotel near the airport and a Hilton in the valley on the way from the airport. Marriott also is building a new hotel tower. The high-end hotels have been operating at 90 percent occupancy here, so I think we need more properties.
Quito currently attracts an additional 100,000 visitors each year, according to the latest government statistics. How have you been able to achieve this growth? We are growing and learning in the business. The government is supported tourism as it looks to create new revenue sources and Quito is learning to be a better city host for tourists. We are learning that tourism can be a great source of income for artisans, taxi drivers, restaurateurs, hotels and for such a variety of people in related fields. We are growing up.
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Pangye Surok 磻溪隨錄, Volume 20, Nokche Kosol 녹제고설(祿制攷說)
Yu, Hyongwon
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This chapter relates to the salary system in China and Koryo. Pan'gye Surok (磻溪隨錄) is Yu Hyŏng-wŏn's (柳馨遠1622-1673) representative book on a reform for a Korean system of government. It consists of total of 26 volumes. In Pan'gye Surok, Yu extensively elaborates his ideas on reform for governmental organization. The main emphasis of the book is on the idea of land reform, through which the author gives well organized critiques and analysis for remodeling and redistributing wealth. The focus and suggestions for reform, however, also expand to social, military, and financial reforms. He also included a thorough examination of the many Chinese classical and historical texts as well as Korean primary sources and scholarship.
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This review is spoiler-free.
After following what my lovely peer bloggers told me, which was, to sum it up in a few words "just read Illuminae right now", and, well, loving it despite all odds, I had to order Gemina as soon as I could and devour it right away. I was lucky enough to do a buddy-read of this rollercoaster with my friend Kat, and I couldn't be happier about it, because when I needed to scream or fangirl or be scared or a mix of all of these things, well, she was there. And believe me, there was a LOT of this.
Following in Illuminae's footsteps, Gemina still manages to pull you into one crazy story using a very unique formatting, made of footage description, graphics and online chats between the protagonists. Once again, if it took me a couple of pages to get into the story – read, get used again to the way this story is told -, once I was in, I was engrossed. Meaning, I couldn't stop reading. Where Illuminae managed a great tour de force by telling us a real story, with great characters, events you can feel happening almost as if they are around you, and make your heart beating out of anticipation… well, Gemina managed to do all of the same things. What I found really interesting here was the addition of some drawings by one of the main characters, Hanna. I thought they gave a whole other dimension to the story and the characters, and I was always eagerly waiting for these graphic parts of the story, which I think were missing from Illuminae.
There are links between Illuminae and Gemina, obviously, since it's a sequel, but this book is another story, another spaceship, and a whole lot of other drama happening. The biggest change here though is the characters. If we can find some links between characters from the first book into this second book, we are mainly following completely different characters. This took some getting used to as well. I slowly fell in love with Kady and Ezra in the first book, and was a bit wary to meet new characters I wouldn't get attached to just as much. Or so I feared, but I'm glad to say I was wrong. Hanna and Nik, the two main characters here, are different from our previous heroes. Obviously Hanna was one bad-ass commandant's daughter, but I need to talk about Nik here the most, because, well, erm, I kind of loved him. He was so flawed, yet he's the one that grew on me the most whenever I come to think about this book now, weeks later after having read it. Even if he makes mistakes, he is so genuine and always manages to bring a smile on our faces even though we are reading some big, big, big chilling drama happening.
I can't review this without saying too much about the story and revealing some plot points, so I'm going to stay concise and say once again how remarkable this series is. These books are kind of outside of my comfort zone, yet they manage to pull me into this crazy world, and make me feel all the things. And believe me, there are so many different things happening here. Plot twists, hearts breaking and stopping. I couldn't stop reading, and the 600+ pages of this book went by in a blur where I was a confused mess and couldn't stop thinking about it when I was not reading. If some parts of this book bothered me – sometimes it got a bit repetitive, and I had a hard time getting into this as always, mainly because it just feels so different -, reading Illuminae and Gemina is an experience any lover of sci-fi, hell, any lover of reading should try for himself. I'm not saying it's for everyone, because I know it's not. But it's incredible to see how and what authors can do with words in a book to take us into a story, the unusual way.
Final rating: 4 drops!
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Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2), Published by Knopf Books For Young Readers, October 18th 2016.
Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna's social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.
Hanna is the station captain's pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.
When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station's wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren't just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.
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Like everyone else out there I've read the various analyst reports on SOA stacks, visions, products and all of those elements. So I thought I'd have my own crack of the whip at rating what is out there, the following assessment is just my view based on using the products, talking to the vendors and should be taken with the same pinch of salt that all analyst reports should be accompanied with.
Rather than rating every product I've decided to split it into four groups
- The big boys - SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM
- The pack - BEA, Sonic, Sun, RedHat/JBoss
- Going to be bought or die - the rest
Group 1 - Rating the big boys - Today
These are the companies where you are probably going to have some of their SOA suite whether you like it or not. You've bought the ERP, welcome to the SOA type of thing.
First Place
IBM - Clear and out there by a mile and a half.
SCA, SDO, ProcessServer, SOMA and a decent set of research creds, IBM are the intellectual leaders in much of the SOA space. Thought-leaders in the standards space. They've got a full stack of technology to match pretty much everyone.
The only criticisms I'd level at them is not being totally honest on product life expectancy, I mean two years ago WBI Server with Crossworlds and MQWorkflow was a vibrant product, now it makes CICS looks cool. The "Advanced" ESB that is MQSI (possibly the most re-named product in the history of IT) can't be far behind. The other element is when Rational will catch up with SOA and when IBM will actually have an SOA tool rather than just process oriented tools. Currently there isn't really a joining vision like ESA or Fusion its all a bit disjointed.
Need to:
Be more honest about what they are doing. Get a real vision for the future and drive everything towards that. Need to admit there is a level about WBI Modeller that they just don't have yet.
Oracle - Hey look, technology that can work with multiple vendors.
Oracle's strategy of buying smart has given them a stack that is heterogeneous out of the box. Good applications server base, good and improving security suite, top notch BPEL product and the start of BAM. Killing interconnect was a good move, and they've even started moving the Application platform over to using the app server, though it will take a while. Good grasp and pushing of standards. Very complete stack, and an amazing change in the last few years away from its "all in the database" towards a middleware view.
Lack of a decent ESB, and a stripped down BPEL engine doesn't do it for me. An obsession with their own middleware framework (remember BC4J? Well now we have ADF) that surely can't last. They too don't have a decent service modeller, or any service modeller in fact, and the number of "services" being generated out of apps seems to indicate a real desire to create quantity over quality, and they look suspiciously like stored procedure front-ends.
Need to:
Complete the suite, this means a good ESB and getting a decent business service view of what Apps should look like, not a "we've got more services than SAP" dick-swinging competition.
Third and Gaining
SAP - The last to the party.
Speed to market, sure they've been developing everything themselves, but its what 3 or 4 years since they had nothing now they have an integration suite, Process engine, Portal, J2EE application server and a vision for SOA called ESA. Very impressive and the products are improving. Good grasp and pushing of standards
Still seeing the world in SAP coloured glasses, SAP to SAP is great, but lots of the world isn't. Very very process oriented view of the world, many of the "services" they are exposing are singular process (hell like Oracle its database oriented).
Need to:
Complete the suite, for them this means admitting that there is more than SAP in the world. Again like Oracle they need to stop going for volume in their "services" and create a decent business service view of their suites.
Must try harder
Microsoft - Oh dear where is the strategy?
Decent base technology and one of the few Business oriented SOA approaches with Motion.
Weaknesses: No obvious strategy, Window Workflow has a different base to BizTalk 2006, BPEL support remains static and there is nothing in the ESB space or really for enterprise workflow. Failure to adopt or push open standards and a totally new modelling approach that is still unproven. Biggest challenge appears to be that the enterprise software revision is waiting for Longhorn Server, not even Sun are dumb enough to link an OS upgrade with Enterprise software features.
Need to:
Buy BEA, or get a vision for SOA that allows the enterprise to evolve at a different pace to the operating system.


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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Crepes with Hot Buttered Rum Sauce
The worst of the weather is over, but our driveway is coated with ice and that means we're marooned on our hillside for the evening. Ah, well! It's a perfect night for a fireside supper, so there's a pot of onion soup on the stove and Portuguese bread in the oven. I'm tending to a rum sauce while my crepe batter rests. I thought I had a stack of crepes in the freezer but they're nowhere to be found, so I'm here, last minute, making a batch for dessert. This is a lovely treat for family and close friends. It's not hard to do - the component parts take time to prepare, but I promise the end result will be worthy of your effort. The crepes are great for cold winter nights and, if you're so inclined, give them a place of honor on your Fat Tuesday table. They can be sauced as you please.
Crepes with Hot Buttered Rum Sauce
1 cup + 2 tablespoons instant blend flour (i.e. Wondra)
5 tablespoons superfine sugar, divided
1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
3/4 cup whole milk
3/4 cup water
4 egg yolks
1 tablespoon + 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, divided
1 cup + 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup dark Jamaican rum
Butter flavored nonstick cooking spray
1 cup whipping cream or vanilla ice cream
1) Combine flour, 3 tablespoons granulated sugar and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a 2-quart mixing bowl. Combine milk, water, egg yolks, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract and 5 tablespoons melted butter in a 1-quart mixing bowl. Gradually beat liquids into flour with a whisk or wooden spoon. Blend well but do not over beat. Let sit for 30 minutes.
2) Meanwhile, combine remaining 1 cup butter, brown sugar and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt in a heavy bottomed 2-quart saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat and simmer until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and stir in rum. Use a small funnel to transfer sauce into a plastic squeeze bottle. Place bottle in a pan of warm water.
3) For each crepe, lightly mist an 8-inch nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Set pan over medium-high heat until just beginning to smoke. Remove pan from heat. Pour a scant 1/4 cup batter into pan; rapidly tilt to coat bottom of pan with batter. Cook for about 1 minute, or until crepe loosens from bottom of pan. Flip crepe and cook for 1/2 minute longer. Transfer to a plate. Repeat process until all batter is used.
4) Crepes can be assembled 1 to 2 hours before serving. To assemble, spread about 2 teaspoons rum sauce on a salad-size plate. Place a crepe, best side down, on plate. Spread topside with 2 teaspoons rum sauce. Fold crepe in half, then in half again to form a wedge shape. Place on a rimmed microwavable serving platter. Repeat process for each crepe, overlapping slightly to form a spiral pattern. Set aside.
5) When ready to serve, if using whipping cream place cream, place reserved 2 tablespoons sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla in a chilled 1-quart bowl; beat until soft peaks form. Transfer to a serving bowl. Place crepe platter in microwave and cook on HIGH power for 20 seconds. Remove from oven. For each serving, transfer 2 to 3 crepes to an individual dessert plate; drizzle with additional rum sauce and garnish with a dollop of cream or a scoop of ice cream. Yield: 16 to 18 crepes.
12 comments :
- Martha said...
Mary, I just got over my "fear of crepes" -- I'll have to try yours next time.
- December 20, 2008 at 5:06 AM
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Hot buttered rum sauce . . . I'm there!
- December 20, 2008 at 6:14 AM
- Deepthi Shankar said...
they look perfect
- December 20, 2008 at 6:55 AM
- NKP said...
Oh my, these look wonderful!
I am enjoying listening to Sheryl Crow's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah on your site! I am a lifelong fan of his and saw him in concert in June. A highlight of my life.
- December 20, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Thank you so much for visiting me. U have such a beautiful blog... I was reading thru some of your posts. They are so sweet & personal. I am adding u to my bloglist.
Loved the crepes & also just loved the sound of Onion soup & portuguese bread. Feel like having a bowl full in front of the fireplace. what a perfect picture.
- December 20, 2008 at 9:33 AM
Oh how lovely this would be! Sorry you are stuck, we made it out of Oregon with a blizzard blowing at PDX on Wednesday...back in California now for a bit. These will get you through the storm.
- December 20, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
At least you've got those tasty crepe to keep you warm! They look wonderful!
- December 20, 2008 at 6:03 PM
I've never heard of Hot Buttered Rum Sauce before, much less considered serving over Crepes. We love Crepes at our house, though, because of family tradition, they are 'Swedish Hotcakes' here. Either way, I'm going to have to give a shot of that sauce on the next batch I make!
- December 21, 2008 at 2:13 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Deesha, Natashya and Soma - welcome!
Come often.
Erik, I don't think you'll be sorry! These are really very good.
- December 21, 2008 at 2:21 PM
- Peter M said...
Ummm, hot butter anything is supreme. I'd sprinkle some nuts here too!
- December 21, 2008 at 6:10 PM
- Allie said...
This sounds wonderful! I could use a plate of these right now!
- December 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- The Chef In My Head said...
Good Morning Mary,
I was showing my husband your blog (It's my favorite) and ran across these Crepes with Hot Buttered Rum Sauce, YUM! Is it a sign of stress if I want Rum for breakfast? These look sooo good! Thank you for being such an inspiration to me! -LeslieMichele
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At the time of the Restoration, He repeated His mandate: "Wherefore, you are called to cry repentance unto this people."3
The Lord's Church has the responsibility to preach the gospel in the world. This is the foundation of missionary work, and the duty of our missionaries is to "invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end."4
I would like to speak and testify of the significant impact and the blessings of missionary work in the lives of converts, future generations, and missionaries and of how we can participate in missionary work.
When I was 14 years old, on a beautiful August morning, Elder Prina and Elder Perkins knocked at our door. They began teaching our family about the true nature of God. In the visits that followed, they taught us how to pray. They also taught us about the Restoration and the plan of salvation. After the third or fourth visit, most of my family stopped listening to the missionaries, except for my 17-year-old sister, Dina, and me. We both felt the witness of the Holy Ghost in our hearts and received the spiritual confirmation that the message was true.
We bought a copy of the Book of Mormon and began reading it. Every day after school, we would race home to get to the book first. While the first one home was reading, the other one impatiently waited until mealtime, ate in a hurry, and then took her turn reading until bedtime. Such was the excitement we felt. We started attending church, and soon we asked to be baptized. Our father readily gave his permission, but our mother was hesitant, and it took one more month to persuade her to sign the permission slip. On the day of our baptism, she and the rest of our siblings went to church for the first time. She felt the Spirit. After hearing our testimonies, she went to the missionaries and asked them to start teaching her again. A few weeks later, Mother and our younger sister and brothers were baptized. My life changed forever, and the gospel of Jesus Christ became the compelling force in my life.
Words fail to express the deep feelings of gratitude for the Lord and the missionaries He sent to our home. The Lord blessed me with the knowledge of the restored gospel, and I felt an urgency to share this knowledge with others. I wanted to be a missionary.
Within months, my sister Dina and I were called as local missionaries in San Salvador. This calling gave us the opportunity to go door to door to share the glad news of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and bring many people to the waters of baptism. In due time, we both served full-time missions in the Central America Mission.
My mission had a great impact on my life. I learned to rely more on the Lord, to seek the guidance of the Spirit, and to feel an overwhelming love for God's children. My knowledge of the scriptures and my understanding of the doctrines increased. So did my desire to be obedient and to keep the commandments with exactness. My testimony of the Savior and His infinite Atonement was strengthened. My missionary experiences became part of who and what I am. Missionary work became my passion. It has impacted my life and that of my family more than anything else.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland describes the impact his mission has had in his life with these words: "My mission means everything to me 47 years after the fact. There may have been one day in those 47 years that I have not thought of my mission; I'm just not sure what day that would have been."5
A couple of years ago, my grandson Christian was turning eight and planning his baptismal service with great anticipation. He asked his mother if I could be one of the speakers and share my conversion story. When I asked him why he wanted me to do that, he replied, "Grandma, that is so important. Do you realize that if you hadn't accepted the gospel, I wouldn't be getting baptized? I wouldn't even be who I am."
I don't know if missionaries realize the far-reaching impact of their work. In my own family, the blessings of the gospel have now touched four generations. Didn't President Gordon B. Hinckley say that "when we save a girl, we save generations"?6 I got married in the temple and have eight children. They are all faithful members of the Church, endowed in the temple. Six of them are now married and have their own children. At present there are 34 of us. And that is not all. Both my husband and I served missions, and our two sons and three of our six daughters have also served missions. Collectively we have helped hundreds embrace the gospel in many countries. Some of those converts and their children have also served missions.
Missionary work is the lifeblood of the Church. There is no greater work, no more important work. It blesses the lives of all those who participate in it. It will continue blessing future generations.
You might be asking yourself: How can I assist in missionary work? In what ways can I participate? There are two fundamental truths to keep in mind as you embark on the work. First, have a clear understanding that God loves all His children and desires their salvation. In Doctrine and Covenants 18:13 we read, "And how great is his joy in the soul that repenteth." Second, our message of Christ and His restored gospel is the most important gift you have to give.
As outlined in Preach My Gospel, missionary work is a four-fold endeavor: finding investigators, teaching and baptizing, fellowshipping new members, and fellowshipping and teaching less-active members.7 Every member of the Church - children, youth, and adults - can assist in any or all of these efforts.
Begin by being a good neighbor and a good friend. Set an example of righteousness and kindness. Let your smile radiate love, peace, and happiness. Live a gospel-centered life.
Then, be more specific in your missionary efforts. Let me suggest some ideas. You might find two or three that work for you:
- If you have children at home, help prepare them for missionary service.
- Prepare yourself for missionary service.
- Invite family and friends to listen to the missionaries or to attend our Church meetings and activities.
- Accompany the missionaries to investigators' homes, or invite the missionaries to teach nonmembers in your home.
- Invite people to a family home evening in your home.
- Invite people to a family history center, or help them do family history research.
- Give referrals to the missionaries. Members can be the greatest and best source of referrals.
- Share your beliefs and testimony with nonmember friends and family.
- Seek for opportunities to reach out to others.
- Extend friendship to investigators and new converts.
- Give your best efforts to finding those who are seeking the truth.
- If you have family members or friends on missions, send them letters of love and encouragement, and pray for them.
When our daughter Margie was in the second grade, she invited her best friend to go with her to Primary. Both were assigned parts for the sacrament meeting presentation. Her friend's father had rejected the missionaries in the past, but when Margie showed up in his house with a handful of Church pamphlets, he listened carefully to her simple explanations and testimony of Joseph Smith and the First Vision. He not only allowed his daughter to continue going to Primary but also gave her permission to receive the lessons from the missionaries and be baptized. He and his wife attended the baptismal service.
We can all participate in missionary work. This is the Lord's work, and He will help us do it. His gospel has to go to every nation, and we can be instruments in His hands to bless the lives of others by sharing with them His truth. We will be greatly blessed in the process.
We are the children of a loving Heavenly Father. He sent His Son to open the way so we can live with Him forever. Of this I testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Notes 1. John 3:5.
2. Matthew 28:19-20.
4. Preach My Gospel (2004), 1.
5. Jeffrey R. Holland, "The Atonement" (seminar for new mission presidents, June 26, 2007), 1.
6. Gordon B. Hinckley, "Our Responsibility to Our Young Women," Ensign, Sept. 1988, 10.
7. See Preach My Gospel, 219.


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I have a list of things to-do that's a mile long. And absolutely nowhere on that list does it say 'go make something for your sewing room.' But this last weekend I set the ever present to-do list to the side and made myself a pretty sewing machine cover. I used my Nesting Chairs fabric and the matching Nesting Chairs pillow panel (for the big chair in the center). I pieced it together in strips with white sashing and quilted it in stripes and a concentric box. All that's left to do it make and attach the binding and add grommets with ties to keep the sides closed.
I'm thrilled with the way it's turned out so far. I love little projects like this so I can actually finish them. I think I worked for 3 hours or so on Saturday and it was a great diversion and really fun. (Insert sheepish grin here...Remember that duvet cover I started a while ago? It still sits unfinished. I've finished piecing the top but haven't quilted it/assembled the duvet pocket...I hope to get that finished soon...) So, I'm hoping my machine cover project may have inspired you to tackle a quick and fun project (that's not on your to-do list!).
I'm going to give away a FQ set of Nesting Chairs in Aqua/Orange + 1 Pillow Panel to one winner. Yahoo for giveaways, right?!?


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I stumbled on to Alex Kanevsky's work in Chelsea a couple of years ago when I was looking for a photographer's show. I forget who the photographer was but Kanevsky became one of my favorite contemporary painters. He now has a new exhibit in Chelsea at the J. Cacciola Gallery, through June 13.
The paintings are mostly figurative with a few landscapes. His shear application of paint becomes the narrative. Seemingly skimmed onto the surface, the paint leaves many layers and impressions of the subjects, often transparent, unfinished, one layer breaking through the form while another redefines it, infinitesimally thin and fragile. The physical act of his painting, like layers of time and memory, come together to build the subject in a manner which is never quite complete or accurate.
Kanevsky maintains an extensive website that includes process shots of some paintings. These are particularly interesting as the paintings seem to come about as a series of shifting impressions rather than a linear progression.
By chance, I saw Synecdoche, New York last week. Early in the film you see an image of a woman embedded in wallpaper. I thought it looked like a Kanevsky painting -- quickly you realize they are Kanevsky paintings attributed to one of the lead charters. And, just as quickly, it becomes the only reason to keep watching the movie.


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Increasing water pressure to a certain set point and keeping the pressure regardless of flow and inlet pressure.
In water distribution, keeping the water pressure constant is important for the comfort level of the end user. However, the changing demand for water during the day makes the pressure fluctuate. To avoid this, booster sets with pressure gauges are able to adjust the output and thus keep the pressure constant.
Constant pressure boosting is used in all boosting sets and in all system configurations such as:
- Direct boosting systems: A system where a booster set connected directly to the water mains serves the whole building or only the upper parts of it
- Zone divided systems. Here, a number of boosters connected to the water mains or a common break tank serve their own pressure zone.
- Roof-top tank systems. These systems often have a separate booster set serving the upper floors where the pressure would otherwise be too low due to insufficient geometric height.
- Series connected system with intermediate break tanks. Here, every booster serves its own pressure zone, supplying from its own break tank which is located on a separate floor.
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JUSTIN Burnell says London Welsh must now retain the standards they showed in thrashing Rotherham.
The Exiles' head coach felt Sunday's 47-16 victory, which propelled his side back to the top of the Greene King IPA Championship, was their best display of the season.
And having shown what they can do, Burnell wants Welsh to keep imposing themselves.
"I think the teams in the league are always wary of London Welsh because of what you saw on Sunday," he said.
"We have got a decent pack of forwards that win possession and we have got enough pace in the wide channels to score tries.
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"What we have got to do now is maintain the consistency. That's got to be the biggest thing for me."
Having struggled to win emphatically in recent weeks, the Exiles showed their all-round threat, with their seven tries coming from all quarters against Rotherham.
"That is what we have been trying to get to," said Burnell.
"I have always said we have got to be more expansive and that's what we did against Rotherham.
"It was a good performance, but there is still a long way to go."
Prop James Tideswell, who scored a memorable 'show and go' try against Rotherham, agreed.
He said: "I think we can go up another couple of levels. We can just build from there really."
Tideswell showed his pace and scrummaging power against Rotherham, but knows he is far from guaranteed a starting spot.
He said: "We have got six props here and we have definitely got at least two packs that you can put against each other.
"It's always competitive each week at training and whatever pack they put on the pitch normally does a job.
"We have confidence in our teammates around us and it's just a case of whoever Justin decides to pick.
"If you play well one week, you keep your spot. If you play badly, you go to the back of the pack."
Could scoring a try like that help Tideswell stay in the team?
"Hopefully!" he said. "It is not all about scoring tries.
"The set piece is the most important thing and then defence.
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The research mission of the space shuttle Columbia continues today, despite the tragedy that befell the astronaut crew and their spaceship in February 2003.
At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, debris from Columbia was carefully wrapped and secured on pallets and then shipped last month to The Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. The pieces are on loan to the nongovernmental group for research purposes.
Aerospace was one of 20 organizations to express interest in borrowing components associated with Columbia's propulsion system. The parts are made of a graphite/epoxy composite and range in size from the dimensions of a large beach ball to the length of a couch.
This is the first time space shuttle debris has ever been released to non-NASA researchers. NASA notified the families of the Columbia crew about the loan before making the items available for study.
Gleaning data from the Columbia mishap is considered preferable to simply entombing debris, as was the case following the fiery, catastrophic explosion of Challenger shortly after liftoff in 1986.
In looking over select pieces of recovered wreckage from Columbia, specialists hope to shed light on the forces encountered during the space plane's fatal plunge to Earth. Those studies may well help experts design and build safer, more robust components for the spacecraft of tomorrow.
Re-entry behavior
Analysts at The Aerospace Corp. will be subjecting the Columbia debris to various tests. Those investigations should help calibrate analytical models for predicting the re-entry behavior of composites — material used on the space shuttle fleet and elsewhere in the space business.
The shuttle tanks were initially internal to Columbia at various locations within the spacecraft, but separated during shuttle's breakup. A section from the payload bay door is included in the delivery to The Aerospace Corp. This would be in the category of external surface material.
A few articles from one of the experiments carried on Columbia's last flight are still to come, said Gary Steckel, senior scientist of The Aerospace Corp.'s Space Materials Laboratory. He is leading the analysis of the Columbia hardware in the labs.
"It's a unique opportunity," Steckel told Space.com. "Up to this point, we've never retrieved any composite materials. That's not to say that others haven't re-entered, falling into the ocean where there's no chance for recovery."
Hazards to people and property
Steckel said that careful analysis of the Columbia debris can show how composite materials responded to various heating and other loads as they slammed through Earth's atmosphere. The findings could help enhance computer models that predict hazards to people and property from hardware falling from space and striking terra firma.
For instance, Steckel said that if a U.S. Air Force upper stage carrying a large composite tank were launched, later to re-enter, "chances are it's not going to entirely burn up."
"So using this material from Columbia, we can hopefully predict what that tank is going to do, and whether it's a danger … hitting a populated area," Steckel said.
Aerospace will have the debris for one year, Steckel said, to perform analyses to estimate maximum temperatures during re-entry based upon the geometry and mass of the recovered composite. "One of these that we got weighs 360 pounds [164 kilograms]. It's pretty massive," he added.
Thermal history
A trajectory prediction analysis of the debris is also being done. That effort is meant to determine the paths taken by the components after they separated from Columbia — how they "flew" after they broke off and what the environment they experienced was like.
"All the pieces that we have, we know where they were found. Based on the mass of those articles and their geometry, our people will do a trajectory analysis to try and figure out exactly where it was when it broke free," Steckel said. "Once they've got that, the thermal history of the debris can be predicted. I'll be looking at what peak temperatures were seen, how much heating the debris saw and how that jibes with what other people predict."
The Aerospace Corp. has conducted studies on the breakup and re-entry of spacecraft for more than 35 years. In 1997, the organization created a Center for Orbital and Re-entry Debris Studies, or CORDS. This center is gathering information and delving into what happens to human-made objects and the materials they comprise as they slice through Earth's thin to thick atmosphere.
For example, CORDS research teams focus on several key questions:
- Do some materials burn up or break apart, and when might this occur in the reentry process?
- What items do or don't survive re-entry, and how are materials affected by specific temperature levels?
- How can designers best "enhance" the breakup process to lower the hazards associated with re-entering space objects?
Quite a bit is known about metals, such as stainless steel and titanium commonly used in satellites and other related space hardware that has taken the plunge from Earth orbit over decades of launchings.
Out of the sky
CORDS experts have inspected a number of tanks and spheres from launch stages that have fallen to the ground from space. That includes a stainless-steel propellant tank from the second stage of a Delta launch vehicle that fell onto a Texas ranch in January 1997 after nine months in orbit. Associated parts landed elsewhere in Texas and in Oklahoma. The group also analyzed a light fiberglass fragment that struck, but did not injure, a woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
On the international front, CORDS has studied a titanium sphere from the third stage of a Delta launch vehicle that plopped down near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in January 2001 after seven years in orbit.
The results of that work have helped in crafting computer models of how objects from space behave when they re-enter Earth's atmosphere. Good modeling adds to the design of launch vehicle stages and spacecraft, paying off in terms of reducing the chances of harming people or property from a re-entry.
In the 1990s, The Aerospace Corp. also conducted — in collaboration with NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico — extensive testing of pressure vessels that made use of composites. Tagged as the Enhanced Technology for Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels Program, components similar to these are included in the Columbia debris shipment.
Scarcity of data
NASA and the U.S. Air Force, as well as the European Space Agency, are interested in orbital debris breakup, said Richard Baker, senior engineering specialist within The Aerospace Corp.'s Fluid Mechanics Department.
The ability to analyze the composite material recovered after the Columbia accident is unique, Baker said. "It's the first opportunity that we know of to look at the re-entry response of this particular material," he told Space.com.
Research findings from the Columbia debris assessment, Baker said, will extend currently used computer models of re-entering space items. "There's a scarcity of data" concerning space-rated composites, he said.
Very little work has been done on composites, ceramics, and resins that are widely used in constructing orbiting spacecraft and structures, as well as rocket boosters, Baker explained.
Improve safety and reliability
"NASA's mission includes the development of technologies that improve the safety and reliability of access to space," NASA Deputy Administrator Fred Gregory said in a press statement regarding the release for study of recovered Columbia hardware.
"By allowing the scientific community to study Columbia debris, researchers will have the opportunity to gain unprecedented knowledge about the effects of re-entry," Gregory noted.
In time, more pieces of Columbia are expected to be lent for testing and used to help better appraise the rigors of space travel experienced by both piloted and automated spacecraft.
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The Strength of the MIT Community
Dear Members of the MIT Community:
We have lived through a week that began with bombings at the Boston Marathon and ended with a night of violence that took the life of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier. Today, we share a sense of relief that order has been restored, and we turn now to mourn Officer Collier and the victims of the bombings, and to honor the service of so many.
A strong MIT
As a longtime member of the MIT community, I am proud of how the people of MIT handled themselves during this ordeal. Members of our community provided aid and comfort under extraordinary circumstances. I have heard stories of students in our Boston fraternities and sororities who reached out to help those in need directly after the Marathon explosions. MIT groups and dormitories created memorials to Officer Collier and are offering warm gestures of support to our MIT Police officers. I am grateful for everyone's patience and cooperation with the "shelter in place" orders of yesterday, which made it easier for our staff to ensure that the community was safe during the manhunt. I am also grateful for all that individuals have done to support and console each other within our community.
Honoring Officer Sean Collier
Above all, I am profoundly grateful for the service and supreme sacrifice of Officer Collier, who was an extraordinary young man, an excellent police officer, and a truly beloved member of our community. MIT is in consultation with his family around opportunities to honor his memory. We are planning a major campus event to take place this week: communications will go out as soon as possible. We will also offer guidance for those who would like to make financial contributions that honor Officer Collier's memory.
Support and counseling
This has been a painful time. For those who may feel the need for personal support, please remember that MIT Medical, S3, ODGE, the Chaplains, housemasters and residential life staff are all available to help.
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Events such as we have endured during the past week test us, and it has been reassuring to see how the MIT community has shown its strength and decency. To everyone across the Institute who has helped secure our campus, comfort others, ensure continued access to resources, and strengthen our community, thank you.
Eric Grimson
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Coulee Recollections
A look at the past…
Last updated 6/19/2013 at 9:25am
In the May 29 Coulee Recollections, we unknowingly repeated an error originally made 10 years ago. The class speaker for the class of 1953 at Coulee Dam High School was Josef Gray, but his first name had been incorrectly written in the column 10 years ago as Josie. Thanks to class Salutatorian Donna Smith Cunning, who caught the error and notes that he was known all through high school as Joe Gray, and that he eventually became president of SeaFirst Bank.
Ten Years Ago
The saying "Good things come to those who wait," could apply to 79-year-old Raymond Wans. After all, it took the World War II veteran 62 years to get his high school diploma. Last Saturday, he entered the graduation ceremony as the first at LRHS to receive his diploma through the state's Operation Recognition, a program giving World War II veterans honorary high school diplomas.
A Lake Roosevelt High School student roped in the highest award for a state high school rodeo participant recently. Shane Proctor took the title of all-around champion at the state's high school rodeo championship in Ellensburg May 29 - June 1.
Morgan's Musings - Sunday, June 14, is Flag Day. The VFW has issued a booklet, entitled "Etiquette of the Stars and Stripes," which tells and shows how, when and where to fly the colors. The booklet is available through http://www.vfw.com.
A Lake Roosevelt High School junior has qualified to join some of the state's best wrestlers to compete at a national tournament in July. Kerry Green Jr. will travel to Fargo, N.D., as part of the Washington State Wrestling Junior National Freestyle and Greco-Roman Team.
Twenty Years Ago
Diplomas were conferred to 58 seniors during commencement exercises for Lake Roosevelt High School Class of 1993 last Friday evening. The graduating class was one of the smallest in years, numbering 44 students fewer than last year's graduating class.
Earning ribbons at the 1993 Washington State Special Olympics Summer Games this past weekend included Justin White, Gina Matt and Jaimi Smith.
Students participating in the Music May Festival at Pacific University camp included Jennifer Bonertz, Lloyd Gibson Jr., Amanda King, Emily King, Brann Marshal and Jeremy Hansen.
Thirty Years Ago
Winners in the Banks Lake Spiney Ray Kids' Fishing Derby included Tyson Siegert, Shany Ayling, Carla Whitaker and Terry Shinkle.
New officers for the Federated Women's Club include president Josie Esau, vice president Zay Weaver, secretary Dottie Nessett and treasurer Helen Wilbor.
Johnson Video Service is now offering home video television movies to the Grand Coulee Dam Area. The video service offers color/sound television pictures of family events. The home business is owned and operated by Leon and Tina Johnson of Electric City.
Forty Years Ago
Tommy Davis of the VFW team was the first place winner in the recent ticket sales for the Little League with $235 sold. Second and third place winners were Dave Thornton and Joe Goodwin.
Lieutenant Tim Wapato, a 15 year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Dept., has arrived to assume the duties of the Chief of Police, Colville Tribal Police.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Williams entertained at an open house Sunday afternoon in honor of the 25th wedding anniversary of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Williams of Coulee Dam.
Lori Clayton of Grand Coulee caught her first fish ever on Banks Lake Sunday, a 17" rainbow trout.
Fifty Years Ago
The Associated Public Works projects of the Coulee Dam National Recreation area are rapidly reaching completion.
Etheta Anderson of Grand Coulee is the winner of a $50 conservation education scholarship through Natural Resources Forum of Washington.
Columbia School held graduation last Wednesday with 40 boys and girls in the graduating class. Eight of them started kindergarten together.
Sixty Years Ago
Work is under way at the park site on the equalizing reservoir.
Richard Stiles of Coulee Dam received his degree as doctor of medicine from Northwestern University.
Newly elected officers of the American Legion #131 of Coulee Dam are president Maxine Crawford, vice president Annette Weil, second vice president Betty Hillas, secretary Doris Skorheim, treasurer Bea Heathershaw, chaplain Sally Johnson, historian Ruth Strock and sergeant at arms Mary Cummings.
John F. Michaud became the mayor of Elmer City Thursday night at the meeting of the council.